Unfortunately we are burning through it quite a bit faster.

It would be nice to conserve a little for future generations.

It does seem bacteria and modern economics operate under the same infinite growth formula. The problem is when they hit the edge of the petri dish, or the resources.

The advantage of multicellular organisms is being able to sense and navigate their environment.

To the extent nations function as social super organisms, government, as executive and regulatory function, is the nervous system, while money and banking serve as blood and the circulation system.

The problem is that as we function as cells within that larger organism, it is government that directs and potentially restricts our wants, while the purpose of money is to feed our needs.

So we resent government and try to accumulate as much money as possible.

Yet while people see money as signal to save and store, markets need it to circulate, so Econ 101 refers to it as both medium of exchange and store of value.

Though in the body, blood is the medium, while fat, as well as bone and muscle, are store.

While we might think of money as a commodity to mine from the economy, like we mine gold from the ground, or bitcoin from computer processing, the reality is that it functions as a social contract. Community tokens.

So to store the asset side of the ledger, there has to be a debt to back it.

In a healthy society, one's worth is a function of how much one adds to the general well being. Yet in ours, it is a function of how much one extracts. That is necrotic.

The only real job the flunkies allowed in office have, is running up the debt needed to allow the financial system to grow metastatically. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

It was fun, while it lasted.